Power knocked out to parts of Old Town

An unspecified equipment failure knocked out power to two adjoining sections of the Old Town neighborhood this evening, officials said.

About 700 customers are affected by the outage that was reported around 7:18 p.m., according to Commonwealth Edison spokesman Bennie Currie.

One outage area stretches from North Avenue to Division Street and from Lake Shore Drive to North Dayton Street. The second portion stretches from West North Avenue to West Hill Street and from North Wells Street to North Felton Court, according to Currie.